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I tried to back into the estimates here, and I can't quite get my head around them.

$737.19 of transfer out is 8TB per month at standard EC2->internet prices, which is fine; something like 25 Mb/s on average.

$3558.56 for EC2 is something like 20 x m5a.2xlarge ... and that makes no sense to me. That's 160 vCPUs and 640GB of RAM.

How does a WP site like that possibly need that much compute? The whole thing feels like it ought to be a pair of instances plus $20 a month for Cloudflare.




Yeah, I'm rather confused too. I run a site with over 10TB transfer per month on a $15 / month Digital Ocean virtual machine. It's fast enough and Cloudflare caches over 80% so I seldom go over the included 2TB of monthly bandwidth.

I'm sure STH has more visitors though.




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